Steve Lohr Nyt News Service

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise.With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on Thursday, I.B.M. is trying to tighten its grip on corporate and government data centers. The new machines are faster, more powerful and more energy ef...

Google is bringing Android software development to the masses.The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones.The free software, called Google App Inventor for Android, has been under development for a year. User testing has been done mainly in sc...

NTP, a patent-holding company best known for prying a settlement of more than $600 million from the maker of the BlackBerry, is now suing the other big names in the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola. The suits, filed late Thursday afternoon in federal district court in Richmond, Va., charge that the cellphone e-mai...

The mainframe business is to I.B.M. what manufacturing is to the American economy, a shrinking but strategically vital part of the franchise.With the introduction of a new generation of mainframes on Thursday, I.B.M. is trying to tighten its grip on corporate and government data centers. The new machines are faster, more powerful and more energy ef...

Google is bringing Android software development to the masses.The company will offer a software tool, starting Monday, that is intended to make it easy for people to write applications for its Android smartphones.The free software, called Google App Inventor for Android, has been under development for a year. User testing has been done mainly in sc...

NTP, a patent-holding company best known for prying a settlement of more than $600 million from the maker of the BlackBerry, is now suing the other big names in the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG and Motorola. The suits, filed late Thursday afternoon in federal district court in Richmond, Va., charge that the cellphone e-mai...